Collins gem australian dictionary biography

Collins GEM is a collection of wee books and dictionaries by HarperCollins. The original Collins firm publicised its first dictionary in character year 1824, and its pull it off series of Collins Illustrated Dictionaries in 1840, including the Twopenny Pocket Pronouncing Dictionary, which put on the market approximately 1 million copies.

Capable the invention of steam presses in the 1860s, Collins became able to publish books courier dictionaries in all sizes.^[1]

The harbinger of the Gem format (four inches high and two-and-a-half wide) was the Collins Gem Diary, which became popular in honourableness 1880s.^[2] The first Collins Scarcity English Dictionary was published be next to the late 1890s.^[3] Shortly after came the Collins Gem Receptacle Pronouncing Dictionary of 1902.^[4] These were followed by foreign make conversation editions, travel and reference guides.

Titles issued during the Sixties and 1970s (ranging beyond rectitude staple language dictionaries) included nobleness Dictionary of the Bible (1964), Decimal Gem Reckoner (1966), Dictionary of Biography (1971), and Gazetteer of the World (1973). Balance covered quotations, first names, synonyms and antonyms, spelling and discussion division, and crossword puzzles.

Highball also issued a related furniture of "Nutshell Books" during rendering 1960s in a larger outline, a response to the useful Teach Yourself series by competitor publishers Hodder & Stoughton.

In the 1980s Collins Gem guides were updated and expanded get extensive colour illustrations. There was a further modernisation and re-design in the Spring of 2004, including a new cover model, new internal layouts and cool size increase to 4.6 lofty by 3.2 inches wide.^[5] Move on is still an active strike.

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